Arizona has more to offer than a deformed cactus

After my first visit to Arizona to see my girlfriend and her family Rachel, I declared that Arizona had little more to offer than their favorite color brown and a deformed cactus every here and there. After my second visit to Arizona, I now admit that my accusations of the climate and terrain were wholly false. How did I come to realize this? We took a six hour car ride and ended up at the Grand Canyon: full of California like terrain. So who knows? Maybe God felt bad that he left Arizona to deal with things like scorpions and heat waves, so he gave them one of only two natural wonders of the world on North America. He probably felt bad that Arizona always lost in comparison to California. Congratulations Arizona! You are cool again. While I was there with the Petty Family, I witnessed the miraculous wonder of creation. If you don't take something away from my pictures, then just know that Arizona is a bit more than a deformed cactus and a 118 degree heat wave. In fact, the Grand Canyon may be one of the most beautiful places in the whole world. So relax, maybe put your feet up, and take a look into the lens of my camera.

The Butterfly Effect + Invisible Train

This is the first time I have shot some pictures in a while. I did these in color, and really enjoyed them. Most of what I have done has been with film in black in white, so this was definitely a change. I have this new photo editing program called "Aperture" which is absolutely brilliant! Anyways, the butterflies are starting to show and I happen to have spent the weekend at Butterfly Beach so I guess it works out. Some bees and train tracks are included as well. I hope you enjoy them! Let me know what you think.

Fevers and Mirrors

On the way back from Mexico, we stayed at La Jolla Presbyerian Church. I was graced with a wonderful elevator with mirrors surrounding it on three sides. I wanted to do this for my surrealism assignment because if you look closely or if you just look at all, there are 500 reflections of everyone. It was too dark for me to shoot with the Holga, so I just did it with my Minolta. This is why I could not do it for my surrealism assignment because we had to do that one with the Holga-the european woman I referenced a couple of assignments back. It was a fun assignment and I would like to experiment with this again. Enjoy. Also, the name of the assignment comes from a Bright Eyes album in case you were wondering. On that note, be nice to someone today.